Arkansas Gas Consumers, Inc. v. Arkansas Public Service Commission

W.H. “Dub” Arnold, Chiefjustice,

dissenting. The majority holds that the Arkansas Public Service Commission (“Commission”) lacks the legislative authority to create a policy establishing a plan to reconnect natural gas service to residential customers who had been disconnected for failure to pay their gas bills incurred in the severe winter of 2000-01. Because our statutes give the Commission broad authority to implement such a policy, I respectfully dissent.

Historical Background

Because of extremely cold weather during the winter of 2000-2001, more than 30,000 residential gas customers in…